In the gymnasium with Matua Shane practising trust and co-operation in our collaborative learning time. 

It was so nice to see the class try a couple of times, no put downs, everyone suggesting ideas, being helpful so the group could succeed.

Week 5 homework - students should be writing for the Elsie Locke competition. Their Pepeha needs to be complete and learned by heart. Students have maths in their homework book to complete and they have spelling words to learn on Spelling City - 'Life Ed week 1.' All students could be discussing what their personal statistical investigation could be about -this needs planning with data collecting to get underway soon.

Week 5 has been full of discovery in the Life Education Caravan.


The Life Education Caravan



Students were finally, after 4 visits, going to see Harold!



Learning about our brains at different stages of our life.

 



Relaxing before the quiz.!

 4th May Literacy Quiz Group.
On the 4th of May we traveled to Tauranga Intermediate to compete in the literacy Quiz.

We were wowed by Scott's eating habits at McDonalds & the fact he had pre-thought out what he would order and the amount of food & drink he actually got for very little money!

We were also wowed by the difficulty of the actual quiz. Even though the questions were challenging we managed to have fun, yet attempted to answer all questions.

The results showed we had 63 correct out of 100. Considering this was our first time, it was a satisfactory ending to the night and a good result for all the hard work put in with practice questions. We won $5 book vouchers thanks to Alex who won the tie-breaker question "what are the only 2 animals mentioned in a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet?"  Fox & Dog were the answers. We had tons of fun!  Written by Lauryn & Madeleine.



Filling up before the quiz!



Mrs Campbell with the Literacy Quiz team





 





 

4th May 2012

Homework this week: Spelling City, Maths, Elsie Locke writing.
Research a famous person who shows resilience. What has this person done to show resilience?
How can they be compared to you? What actions, attitudes, achievements show resilience? Use 'tic tac toe' to gather & sort your information.

A winner!

Kiani & Jamie displaying a couple of books.



Zach, Scott & Callum displaying books.

 We had an exciting email advising us that R2 had won a Scholastic Competition. We won a box of books and Jayden won himself $20 to spend on further books. Thanks Scholastic!

In maths we are learning about statistics.
We are learning to write persuasively - advertising first.
Good luck to the team going to the Literacy Quiz competition in Tauranga tonight.



Rutherford 2 Costume competitors



Rutherford House competitors

 Madeleine & Yasmin organised a Costum Day to raise money to travel up to Hamilton to compete in a film competition -great job girls.

Homework

It seems to me that this is a great forum for parents to check up on homework expectations. So I will be advising what is due. Usually this entails incomplete work as well as maths in the homework book.
I will list what is now overdue, if parents/caregivers could check that their student has handed this in, thank you.
* Iditarod Information Report
* Maths page from end of term 1
*Advertisement noted from TV/Radio or page from magazine.
*Descriptive paragraph or two about their bedroom
* Reading a personal novel
*Character doll -this has actually already been marked
*Venn diagram of a character from their novel -at the beginning & the end of the novel.

Week 2 Term 2

Student led discussions on Tuesday. Students have looked at their achievements and where next they need to be learning. The key competencies of self-management, team work and thinking have been looked at. We have used a double bubble to help us analyse. 

Chelsea's Double Bubble analysing the differences & similarities between the Iditarod dog sled race and the RIS swimming sports event.

Term 2 Week 1
With ANZAC on Wednesday this week is flying by.

Students have Life Education to look forward to in week 5.

Chelsea, Melanie, Kaitlyn & Joshua's character dolls.

Chelsea -Island Bound

Tayla -Island Bound

Scott K - Hatchet

Te Wai - The Runaway Settlers

Hannah R - The Runaway Settlers

The independent reading activities are slowly being completed: Character costumes that students make personal connections with and develop creativity as well as valuing creativity, Story maps that develop comprehension through in-depth reading of novels, Diorama that develop personal connections with literacy, develop comprehension through in-depth redaing & transfer written information to a visual format and lastly a venn diagram that develops students ability to locate key information and develop comprehension by analysing & comparing the character at the start & end of the novels.

The novels read were: Island Bound, The Runaway Settlers and Hatchet.

Culinary Arts

Perfect PREFECT

Great spelling site you can use at home!

Spelling City

Many teachers use this site, sometimes as part of the class programme, sometimes just for a few students to use. There are fun activities based on the word list you put in, I enjoyed playing them too! Spelling City is free but you can purchase 'better' things to do with the programmes available.

If you are concerned about your child's spelling I recommend trialling the site yourself. Look at your childs work books and note the spelling that is always incorrect & start these as a base for learning.

Students can also access Spelling City themselves for independent learning.

Week 8 March 19th

The first term is fast disappearing. Today the weather is wet, wild and windy and student engagement was cancelled so students have been inside socialising...cards, drawing, talking, and a very few catching up with work.

The last lesson slot we were in the gymnasium. Rutherford 2 love PE & all participated in large ball games, using skills of passing, throwing, catching and in the well-loved game of dodge- ball, aiming!

Mason talking about his experience today at Culinary Arts.

Welcome to the blogspace of Rutherford 2.

Since starting the school year our feet haven't touched the ground! Two four-day weeks, Girls Self Defence, meeting parents who have volunteered for camp, Haka competition practicing,  a swimming  morning with our team, swimming school sports day, photographs and Chinese language has started.

To top it off camp at the Tarawera Outlet - sleeping in tents - eating in the open, trees, fresh air, beautiful lakes...what more could we want?

Hoi waka returning across Lake Tarawera

WEEK 5

It was unfortunate that whilst at camp we experienced bad weather.

As some of the photos show, it didn't rain all of the time and students were able to join in with planned activites. Three groups were able to test the water downstream of the outlet. We all found a pH of 7, a temperature of 10 degrees C, banks were stable although very muddy where we entered, the water was moving (not stagnant), and using the clarity tube we could see the water was clear. From this data we should have been able to find macro-invertebrates but we found none....why?

Measuring velocity & temperature

Looking for macro-invertebrates

Hoi Waka leaving

Checking clarity

Kayakers leaving

                                                      

Smiling faces say it all!